ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,090, issued on April 8, was assigned to SOCIONEXT INC. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Semiconductor integrated circuit device" was invented by Masahisa Iida (Yokohama, Japan) and Toshihiro Nakamura (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An IO cell includes a first output transistor and a second output transistor. A capacitance transistor is provided between external connection pads. The capacitance transistor is placed between the output transistors and an edge of the semiconductor integrated circuit device as viewed in plan. The gate length of the capacitance transistor is smaller than the gate length of the output transistors."
The ...